#Cosmographia
When your favorite activities no longer bring you joy
May 16, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Skeptical Moose Face?

More likely than you'd think...
Münster's 1550s Cosmographia
@newberrylibrary.bsky.social
(Vault Baskes folio G113 .M75 1550)
May 22, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Constantinople

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia (Jacobus Angelus interpres); 15th century (2nd half); Florence; f.134r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 23, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Jerusalem

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia (Jacobus Angelus interpres); 15th century (2nd half); Florence; f.135r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
A Mappa Mundi for the weekend

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia (Jacobus Angelus interpres); 15th century (2nd half); Florence; f.74v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 23, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Jerusalem

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.135r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Constantinople

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.134r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Rome

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia (Jacobus Angelus interpres); 15th century (2nd half); Florence; f.133r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 22, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Rome

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.133r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
My hometown from Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia Universalis. In true C16 manner the top of the map is actually pointing south. The Cosmographia edition of 1544 is the earliest description of the world in the German language. This woodcut is from an edition in Latin (1550-72). #Cartography
September 22, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Floral Fatality?

Why IS that windy skull vomiting flowers? #Mood #MementoMori
(Peter Apian Cosmographia map, #NewberryLibrary)
March 12, 2024 at 4:24 PM
The house and gardens of the famous Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci are marked on this map of Florence.

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia, translated by Jacobus Angelus; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.132v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 24, 2026 at 7:40 PM
A sugar cane; illustration to an unidentified Latin edition of Sebastian Münster, 'Cosmographia', probably printed by Petri in Basel, c.1544-52.

(British Museum)
August 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
The anthropomorphized creature of the sea is part of a world map from the 1560s, and can be found over here:

gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
Cosmographia universalis et exactissima juxta postremam neotericorum traditionem / Augustino Valerio, episcopo veronesi ampliss., I.O. Franc. Camotius S.D.P...
Cosmographia universalis et exactissima juxta postremam neotericorum traditionem / Augustino Valerio, episcopo veronesi ampliss., I.O. Franc. Camotius S.D.P... -- 1569 -- cartes
gallica.bnf.fr
July 9, 2026 at 7:59 AM
#Atlas of the World „Cosmographia“. The maps reflected the knowledge of the 15th century. Notable: the Americas are missing. This was because Christopher Columbus arrived there 10 years later. - #Weltatlas Claudius Ptolemäus, Ulm, 1482. Amerika fehlt noch. #Gutenberg Museum Mainz
January 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Jerusalem

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.135r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Heute vor 544 Jahren, am 16. Juli 1482, druckte der Buchdrucker Lienhart Holl in Ulm den ersten deutschen Weltatlas, die Cosmographia des Claudius Ptolemäus in der Ausgabe des Nicolaus Germanus. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lienhar...
July 16, 2026 at 6:50 AM
Damascus: here Cain killed Abel; and here was the conversion of St Paul.

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia (Jacobus Angelus interpres); 15th century (2nd half); Florence; f.134v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
May 23, 2026 at 7:36 PM
The first cosmographia in English William Cuningham's The Cosmographical Glasse (1559) #histsci
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March 26, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The monster is a tiny map detail printed in the 1560s in the "Cosmographia universalis et exactissima juxta postremam neotericorum traditionem", and you may access a copy over here: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
June 30, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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#MatthiasRingmann_MartinWaldseemüller_and_AmerigoVespucci

Anyway, here is the famous print of the word (from 1507) that made a media career and named the continents: AMERICA.

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July 4, 2026 at 9:08 AM
This is the first recorded use of the name "America": In Martin Waldseemüller's 1507 world map ("Universalis Cosmographia"), clearly designating South America. 1/
February 13, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The house and gardens of the famous Florentine bookseller Vespasiano da Bisticci are marked on this map of Florence.

BnF MS Latin 4802; Claudius Ptolomaeus, Cosmographia, translated by Jacobus Angelus; 15th century (second half); Italy (Florence); f.132v @gallicabnf.bsky.social
August 24, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Ptolemy pointing at the heavens, and a man examining a globe

BnF MS Grec 1401; Claudius Ptolemaeus, Cosmographia; 15th c (end) for text & 16th c (beginning) for the title page & maps; Constantinople(?) for text, & Italy for the title page & maps; f.2r @gallicabnf.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Ejemplar del Mapamundi de la Cosmographia de Ptolomeo, perteneciente a la Biblioteca Nacional (S. XVI).
June 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM